Environmental ecology of Cryptosporidium and public health implications

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 18, Issue , 1997, Pages 135-161

  Rose, Joan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptosporidium; enteric protozoa; oocyst survival; risk assessment; waterborne disease

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; SURFACE WATER;

CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; OOCYST; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER TREATMENT;

ANIMALS; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; NORTH AMERICA; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEWAGE; WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 0030955032     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.18.1.135     Document Type: Review

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